Want to buy a
Windows 8 or Android tablet with Intel inside? Wait for Slivermont.
Intel just killed off its existing
Atom if the Computex demo of the redesigned Atom is any indication of real
world performance. The system with the upcoming Silvermont Atom is in the
middle.
(Credit: Intel)
Here's some good advice. Wait for Intel's upcoming Silvermont chip.
In a demo Wednesday at Computex, Intel seemed to instantly -- and
thoroughly -- obsolete the existing Atom, known as "Clover Trail," in
a head-to-head "bake off," as the Intel demo guy put it.
The "current best-in-class Intel Atom-based tablet" (Clover Trail) was
pitted against a tablet with the upcoming (and completely redesigned) quad-core
Silvermont Atom (aka, "Bay Trail") packing a new "video encoder
and decoder."
The benchmark,
TouchXPRT, tests "performance of everyday [tasks] such as photo editing
and videos," according to Intel. The demo took two videos and transcoded
(converted) them from MPEG-4 to H.264.
Despite starting the
Clover Trail Atom tablet first, the Silvermont system quickly caught up and
then finished "well before" (quoting the demo guy) Clover Trail.
Check it out at the 34:00
minute mark.
On Tuesday, Intel
said Silvermont will offer 2X the CPU (central processing unit) and 3X the GPU
(graphics processing unit) performance of the current Atom technology in the
market.
Silvermont
will "enable sleek designs with eight or more hours of battery life and
weeks of standby, as well as support Android and Windows 8.1,"
Intel said.(source: cnet)
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